Fanzines/Books

HARDCORE. Another hurricane-like compendium of all the music your parents hate. Their awesome 30th issue contains an in-depth interview with Italian hardcore legends CHEETAH CROME MOTHERFUCKERS, INDUSTRIAL HOLOCAUST and GASP. This issue also comes with a maniacal split 7" between DEATHGRAVE (Bay-Area grind/violence powerhouse) and VIOLATION WOUND (fierce, pissed Bay-Area hardcore, written and conceived by Chris Reifert of AUTOPSY.

HARDCORE-PUNK. "spray paint the walls" tells BLACK FLAG's story (416 pages!) from the inside, drawing on exclusive interviews with the group's members, their contemporaries and the bands they inspired. It's the story of Henry Rollins and his journey from fan to iconic frontman. And it's the story of Greg Ginn, who turned his electronics company into one of the world's most influential independent record labels while leading BLACK FLAG from punk's three-chord frenzy into progressive and free-jazz.

HARDCORE/PUNK. "TLALX: ten years running a diy hardcore punk label" is a 62 page retrospective of the 10 plus years of existence of To Live A Lie Records. The fanzine, almost a mini book, is broken into a few different sections. In the 1st section Will Butler provides a series of vignettes detailing the early years along. A bulk of the fanzine includes classic interviews from BACKSLIDER, ACXDC, SICK/TIRED, HUMMINGBIRD OF DEATH, BEARTRAP, DEATHRATS and SIXBREWBANTHA. Following that are photos of friends and of course some great vinyl pics. Last are reflections on past releases by artists who worked with the label. It really gives you insight of a ten year journey of a diy record label.

HARDCORE/PUNK. Known for its glamorous 1970s punk-rock scene, New York City matched the grim, urban reality of the 1980s with a rawer musical uprising: New York Hardcore as bands of misfits from across the region gravitated to the forgotten frontier of Manhattan's Lower East Side. With a backdrop of despair, bands like AGNOSTIC FRONT, CRO-MAGS, MURPHY'S LAW and YOUTH OF TODAY confronted their reality with relentlessly energetic gigs at CBGB, A7 and the numerous squats in the area. Tony Rettman's ambitious oral history captures ten years of struggling, including the scene's original rivalries with DC and boston, the birth of moshing, the clash and coming to terms of hardcore and heavy metal, the straight edge movement and the unlikely influence of Krishna consciousness. Foreword by Freddy Cricien of Madball. 450 pages!

HARDCORE/PUNK. Starting in 1981 via MINOR THREAT's revolutionary call to arms, the clean and positive straight edge hardcore punk movement took hold and prospered during the '80s, earning a position as one of the most durable yet chronically misunderstood music subcultures. Straight-edge created its own sound and visual style, went on to embrace vegetarianism and later saw the rise of a militant fringe. As the "don't drink, don't smoke" message spread from Washington, DC to Boston, California, New York City and, eventually, the world, adherents struggled to define the fundamental ideals and limits of what may be the ultimate youth movement.

HARDCORE/PUNK. In the early '70, Detroit was the musical hub of America. Everything from the chart topping sounds of Motown Records to the vicious proto-punk of THE STOOGES was being brewed out there and it seemed like there was no end in sight. But by the '80s, the city was both a physical and cultural wasteland. "why be something that you're not" chronicles the 1st wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late '70s to its demise in the mid '80s. Through a combination of oral history and extensive imagery, the book proves that even though the Southern California beach towns might have created the look and style of hardcore-punk, it was the Detroit scene - along with a handful of other cities across the country - that cultivated the music's grassroots aesthetic before most cultural hot spots around the globe even knew what the music was about. The book includes interviews with members of THE FIX, VIOLENT APATHY, NEGATIVE APPROACH, NECROS, PAGANS, BORED YOUTH, and L-SEVEN along with other people who had a hand in the early hardcore scene like Ian MacKaye, Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson - 256 pages at all!

HARDCORE. This 24-page mini-zine gives you just a taste of the madness in the upcoming 288-page book, "xxx fanzine 1983-1988 hardcore & punk in the eighties". More of a companion piece than a preview, this 'zine features additional photographs and interviews that didn't make the book as well as some crucial pieces lifted from the book itself. Also included is a NOMADS 7" FLEXI which features the band covering CRUCIFIX's "how when and where" which flawlessly transitions into AGNOSTIC FRONT's crossover classic "the eliminator".